18 golfers have newly "unlocked" ratings on this Update as a result of joining the Club and/or passing the minimum rounds threshold for making their Rating "official".

The next rated rounds will be The Crusade @ El Shaddai hosted by the SCCDGC on 4/14...come out and get your River City Rating!

Here's the latest Top 100 Leaderboard- now with handy directional arrows to let you know which way your Rating is trending!

Keep an eye out for the Ratings Leaderboard coming to a course kiosk near you, and for upcoming announcements as to how the River City Ratings can and will be used at area tournaments to enhance their fairness, competition, and parity.

Mike_R wrote:so I see that the arrows represents movement since last update, but what do the colors over the rating column mean?

hi! the colors don't really mean anything in particular, but are- especially on the full Ratings Updates from which the Top100 comes- a simple way to visually organize groups of players who all might fit into a certain grouping based on their rating.

the color coding is also helping us look at how many players in any given ratings range show up, on average, to a local event.

what's the difference between the straight down red arrow and the down-right yellow arrow? or the straight up green arrow and the up-right yellow arrow?

just for an example, neil brown #2 did not change at all but he has a up-right arrow.

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"-- Hunter S. Thompson

I believe the arrows track the movement over your last several rated rounds, not necessarily just from one update to the next. So while my rating, for example, hasn't changed from the March 12 update to now, my slightly upward yellow area shows that my last rated rounds helped to bump my rating up a bit. This is sort of greg's area, so maybe he'll describe it a little better, but that's the gist of it.

As for the delta arrow column, when I made it, I didn't realize I lost the first rated round event (RFC Champs Rd1), so it made the arrows wrong. It was suppose to be since the last release of the top 100. The breakdown is as follows: Green Arrow Up - Rating change of +0.25 or more Yellow Arrow Up - Rating change of +0.05 to +0.24 Yellow Arrow Sideways - Rating change -0.05 and +0.05 Yellow Arrow Down - Rating change -0.05 to -0.24 Red Arrow Down - Rating change -0.25 or more

I'm open to different values, but I thought that this would be a good starting point. I've provided an update to Ted of the new Top 100 with updated arrows (and correction of 1 person).

I updated the Top 100 attached above to the corrected version. We also found a player whose rating should have "unlocked" after the C-Tiers, but hadn't- as a result, 4/5ths of the list dropped down a place...we all got 1% worse just like that.

sorry about my mis-explanation of the arrows on the leader board- they're new to me also!

Thanks for doing this guys. Its really cool to see how we stack up against the rest of STL.

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"-- Hunter S. Thompson

To learn more about the River City Ratings, or to check out your own rating, head to the Club website's Stats Page for all the info and links you need. Feel free to ask questions or comment on the Ratings here in this thread.

We're pushing back the next full Update and Top 100 until after the St. Louis Open this coming weekend...sorry. Head to the Stats, Scores, & Ratings page on the Club website to find out what your River City Rating is, and to learn more!